Moodle plugins directory: Course Request Manager

Do you struggle to manage requests for moodle courses from your users? No more!! Course Request Manager allows you to create custom request forms with mandatory or optional fields. The tool allows for quick approval of course requests and can automatically send users details of their new courses including enrollment keys etc. Simplify your admin role by installing this essential plugin!

A real time saver for site admins who needs to process requests for new course setups. The course request manager block allows the admin to easily design and deploy custom course request forms which can be used by users with appropriate permissions.

Unlike the moodle core request feature which uses a single text box for information on the request, course request manager allows the administrator to design course request forms with up to 15 form fields for gathering request data from a user. Form elements may include text areas, text fields, drop down lists, check boxes etc. Forms can be created and managed using a simple and easy to use form editor.

The block is ideally suited for administrators who want to deploy an internal moodle request system and avoid requests sent via email or other communication methods. It aims to improve on the core request feature by adding the ability to custom design request forms.

Features

The block also contains a suite of features for managing, approving and commenting on requests.

Design custom request forms

Quick approve requests

Auto assign request authors as teachers on approved courses

Manage multiple course requests

Automatically send confirmation emails

Attach comments to requests

Bulk request operations (new in version 3)

View request history etc

Design custom notification emails

Set fields to mandatory or optional (new in version 3)

Allow manager and course creator roles to approve requests (new in version 4.3)

The block is designed to improve workflow in managing and approving course requests.

It has been developed by Daniel McSweeney and Kyle Goslin from the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dublin

Comments

Hi, have been using this block successfully for a while, but now want a new member of staff with 'manager' role to deal with requests, have looked at all permissions and for the life of me cant get it show admin options! any ideas?

Hi Daniel,
yes sorry I've been offline for a while. I'm fixing some of the permissions issues you have reported and will do some testing with version 2.8 & 2.9. I hope to have it 2.8 and 2.9 ready by the end of the first week in June (all going well).

Hello i have install the new version in my moodle and i got a error when i try to create a request. The first page is ok but when im clicking for the next one ( page 2 ) i got this error : moodle_database::update_record_raw() id field must be specified.

We are also experiencing some issues with the plugin in v2.9. In one instance, we receive an error that states "error/ Sorry your account does not have sufficient privelages to request a course. You need to be assigned to a system role with sufficient privileges." This is similar to the error Daniel was receiving previously, so my guess is we still have permission issues. Furthermore, the 4.3 plugin started to force users to skip our home page and go straight to login. On another v2.9 instance, it broke the system, and we received a "Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: You cannot redirect while printing the page header" error. I had to remove the plugin in order to get Moodle working again.

We loved the plugin when our systems were at v2.7 and did not experience the issues with past plugin versions. We are looking forward to your fixes when they come out and are appreciative of your work on this.

As Evan Abbey stated, on my Moodle 2.9.2 installation the latest version of the plugin caused several problems: (1) users are forced to login (2) there is the same error message regarding privileges and (3) when the user is logging out, there is a message indicating that they cannot do that - yet, this final one is not persistent. Therefore, I uninstalled the plugin

Hi James,
I plan to set aside some time for this in the next few weeks (moodle 3 updates etc). At the moment I have not tested BUT it should be fine with a simple change to the version.php file. Add the following line

$plugin->component = 'block_cmanager';

That should allow a version 3 install. IMPORTANT: Don't do this on a production server. Please test first. Usage at this time prior to a tested release is at your own risk.

hi guys I am tryign to install this plugin into my Moodle site but I am getting this error "Validating block_cmanager ... Error
[Error] Plugin does not declare its component name [null] Help with Plugin does not declare its component name
Installation aborted due to validation failure"

I would like to add the file upload element to the plugin so that the person requesting a course can also upload a file on the second form. Could you please tell me which files to edit so that I can do this?